ST. LOUIS (AP) - A law enforcement interview with a key witness doesn't appear to be included with thousands of pages of documents released after a grand jury decided not to indict a Ferguson police officer in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The Associated Press reviewed more than 5,700 pages of documents released by St. Louis County prosecutors. It doesn't appear that the documents include a transcript or a recording of a two-hour FBI and county police interview with Brown's friend, Dorian Johnson, who was with Brown when he was shot. The discrepancy first was reported by KSDK-TV.
The documents include seven video clips of Johnson's media interviews, as well as a transcript of his testimony to the grand jury that investigated the shooting. The transcript notes that jurors listened to a recording of an Aug. 13 interview of Johnson by the federal and county investigators, but documents released to the public don't appear to include a separate transcript of that August interview.
"If it's not there, it's not there," Ed Magee, a spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, said Monday. "I don't know what was released."
Magee acknowledged that his office didn't publicly release copies of FBI interviews with some witnesses at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, which is conducting a separate civil rights investigation into Brown's death. An FBI spokeswoman in St. Louis declined comment Monday.
"Those reports are not ours to release," Magee said.
Grand jury investigations are closed to the public, but McCullough took the unusual step of releasing documents shown to the grand jury. At the time, he said he wanted transparency and believed "everyone will be able to examine that same evidence and come to their own conclusion."
McCulloch released the documents Nov. 24, after the grand jury decided not to indict the officer, Darren Wilson. Johnson was walking with Brown when they encountered Wilson in a Ferguson street in August. Wilson fatally shot Brown, who was unarmed, after a struggle.
Wilson resigned from the Ferguson Police Department in late November.
Johnson still is wanted by Jefferson City authorities, after skipping a July 31, 2013, court hearing on a misdemeanor stealing charge filed in 2011.
Johnson, then a Lincoln University student, was charged with taking a package containing a backpack after it had been delivered to an apartment in the Broadmoor Apartments complex in the 500 block of Ellis Boulevard on June 24, 2011.
Records from Jefferson City's law department show there is an order for Johnson's detention on the Jefferson City charge - if he is arrested within a 50-mile radius of Jefferson City. But he was not held for local authorities after the Brown shooting, because Ferguson is more than 100 miles from Jefferson City.
City officials also charged Johnson with making a false report for the same incident because, police reported at the time, he lied to them about his identity when he was arrested.
However, court records show he pleaded guilty to that charge in September 2012 and was placed on two years unsupervised probation - which is listed as having been completed successfully as of Sept. 28, 2014.
The Case.net records for Johnson's false report case, before Cole County Associate Circuit Judge Tom Sodergren, also show he failed to complete his community service by the March 28, 2013, deadline - but did complete that service, successfully, by May 7, 2013.